Define cheap? My $499 home system supports RAID1 out of the box, so the cost to implement RAID1 was less than $150 for a pair of SATA drives. The $75 for the 2nd drive will save me the better part of a days work reloading an OS, reinstalling programs, settings and other specific-to-me items it's worth it. Considering I charge my clients $80/hr I spent less than an hour's income to save me about 5 hours of work.
Even if using Server 2008 / Win7 -style full system restore, I can swap a drive faster than I can restore 300GB of data. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 5:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? But RAID solutions - reliable ones, anyway - are not cheap. Even ones targeted for home users. And the unreliabe one are much worse than using no RAID at all. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
